The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver, by Thornton W. Burgess

Vintage childrens book. Dust jacket has some closed tears, now in new removable protective cover. Red tweed boards with black print on front and spine. Green pictorial end papers - forest scene with animals. Pages are clean and unmarked, except for brief gift inscription, Christmas 1952. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, 1945 edition but later printing (probably 1952 from the binding style). 180 pages, illustrated by Harrison Cady. 8vo (7.5" x 5") This book is the fifteenth in Thornton Burgess's Bed-Time Storybook series, preceded by The Adventures of Old Man Coyote, and followed by The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack and many others. The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver was originally published in 1917. Paddy the Beaver causes quite a bit of curiosity among the little folk of the Green Forest when he decides to build a dam. Everyone is puzzled as he cuts trees and sticks and drags them to the Laughing Brook. SKU: 12102515paddybeavercgr